Konrad Zucker

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Konrad Zucker (born December 7, 1893 in Hanover , † August 31, 1978 in Heidelberg ) was a German neurologist , psychiatrist and university professor .

Life

Sugar holds a degree in medicine and in 1922 at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. med. PhD .

He then worked as an assistant at the University of Greifswald to Professor Edmund Robert Forster , who was also the director of the psychiatry and mental hospital there. As part of experimental psychopathological research, Zucker and his colleague Julius Zador (* 1901) first carried out self- experiments with mescaline , then carried out these experiments on psychiatric patients and published the results in medical journals. In February 1928, Zucker received his habilitation .

After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, Zucker became assistant and senior physician at the Heidelberg University Clinic under Carl Schneider . From 1936 sugar was associate professor for psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg . Together with Schneider, Zucker did research on “ child euthanasia ” from 1938 to 1943 and was thus deeply involved in the Nazi euthanasia program . In addition to his professorship, he briefly took over the management of the Maria Anna Home in Pirna at the end of 1938 . Zucker was also a judge at the Hereditary Health Supreme Court in Dresden . From May 8, 1940 he was a T4 expert (and thus one of the professors listed for the selection of patients to be murdered).

During the Second World War , Zucker took on the role of advisory military psychiatrist in Wehrkreis VII (Heidelberg).

After the end of the war he was dismissed from the professorship and found a job at the pension office in Heidelberg. Zucker was the author of several books and specialist articles.

Fonts

  • On the effect of physostigmin on skeletal muscles , University of Göttingen, medical dissertation, 1922
  • Psychology of superstition , Scherer, Heidelberg 1948
  • On the Change of Experience: A Soul History of the Occident , Vol. 1: Pre-Christian World , Kerle, Heidelberg 1950

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Armbruster: Edmund Robert Forster (1878-1933). The life and work of a German neuropsychiatrist. Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 2005 (Treatises on the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences 102), ISBN 978-3-7868-4102-9 , pp. 45ff
  2. ↑ Jan Armbruster: Edmund Robert Forster (1878-1933). The life and work of a German neuropsychiatrist. Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 2005 (Treatises on the history of medicine and the natural sciences 102), ISBN 978-3-7868-4102-9 , p. 56
  3. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 698.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Paul Strassmann : The Strassmanns. The fate of a German-Jewish family over two centuries . Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2006, ISBN 3-593-38034-X , pp. 27, 165f.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , pp. 84 f.
personal data
SURNAME Sugar, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1978
Place of death Heidelberg